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...Johnny come home. Johnny Guitar, why must you wander? Oh, Johnny, Johnny Guitar." Needless to say, the title was changed from "Johnny Guitar" to increase it emotional appeal. Another deft stroke for the trade was "You, you, you, I'm in love with you, you, you," a song whose pedestrian melody never caught the fire of its lyrics. There is a sleeper, just released, called "Kissing Bridge" that should sell on the basis of its one rhyme: "To the old Kissing Bridge with its roof made of wood, ev'ry old fashioned wolf took his Red Riding Hood...
...including chief of staff to Chiang in 1946-48); not even his foes ever accused him of the slightest personal corruption. He is polite, considerate and sincere, but his geniality is not softness. Once he had an army driver executed at the very spot in downtown Taipei where a pedestrian had been killed through the soldier's reckless driving. Chen's mother scolded him for so severe a sentence. "I must enforce discipline," he replied...
Shunning the pedestrian gimmicks of familiar 2-D swashbuckling movies, MGM has contrived a new set of problems for Taylor. There is, of course, the scene with the hero trapped in his palace room as a group of adversaries outside threaten to break down the door. Knights of the Round Table adds a degree of sophistication: Robert Taylor discovers that his sword is out at the blacksmith's for repairs and has to fight off the first few rogues with a torch. Later, in the wrestling scene between the cunning antagonist and the formidable knight, the pair work their...
...case involved Gaidry Motors, of Lexington, which sold a used car to William Hensley. He drove it 14 blocks, and as he stepped on the brakes approaching an intersection, the brakes grabbed and locked. The car skidded wildly into a curb and struck a pedestrian, Albert Brannon, crushing his left leg. He sued Gaidry Motors...
Shoot First (Raymond Stress-United Artists) is the latest pedestrian movie to try a climb up John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps. Despite a slick script by British Whodunit Expert Eric Ambler, the film trips over its own footage...